But that's not when they shot him, no. That's when they tased him. They shot him as he convulsed on the ground.
' "When police arrived, I'm told, he raised his hands and attempted to explain what was going on," Merritt said in the post. "Police fired tasers at him and when his body convulsed from the electrical current, they 'perceived a threat' and shot him to death." '
ACAB. Death to cops. Death to America.
edit: it was saturday night
Many Americans will never realize it, until they are the ones being brutalized by police. American culture is deeply entrenched in individualism. "It can't happen here" and "it can't happen to me" go together.
There is an important difference between identity and identification, which Karen and I have talked about in our book Racecraft. Rachel Dolezal was able to define her identity well enough to become what she said she was in her environment, in Spokane. And that’s something available to her partly because of the way that we as a society define who is black and who is not.
Anybody can be black — black is defined as any known or visible ancestry — or “one drop of blood.” So it’s really not based on what you look like, even if you go to the trouble of tanning and wearing a wig and whatnot.
Most Afro Americans don’t have any control over identification. Their identity, how they define themselves, how they perceive themselves, can be overruled by that identification. That’s what happens when we see Afro-American police officers killed by their comrades by mistake. Their identity as a police officer is overruled instantly and fatally because the identification takes precedence.
That’s what happens to people who are visibly Afro American or who are identified that way in our racist society, if not always in so dramatic and terminal a way. Mistaken identification can put an end to one’s identity by terminating the human being it’s attached to.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/karen-barbara-fields-racecraft-dolezal-racism/
At this point, I have become numb from reading these stories. Having been on the end of police brutality myself years ago and going through all of this from the beginning of Black Lives Matter, it's just made me numb and depressed. I don't think I'll live to see the day killer cops are held accountable for murdering people.
I guess police don't see the value in stopping a man from beating a woman.
what, noo, surely at least forty percent of them see the value in stopping long enough to fill out a questionaire about it. that counts. right?
And there's people on here who clutch their pearls when we wish death and harm on pigs...
Yeah, you hate to see it.
They're not the majority, but they're around.
They tend to not show up under articles like this for some strange reason...
I wonder what on Earth they are doing here? Hopefully they come around eventually.
they werent killed by their mother, their mother was in a video talking about it.
poorly worded tweet was poorly worded
tbf, it really wouldnt be all that surprising if a cop rolled up on their kid and shot before recognizing them, so... preemptive :shocked-pikachu: for when that actually happens next week
edit: iirc there was an off duty cop that shot his kid like a year or two ago, but he thought he was breaking in or something? if that counts
